Wow! I can't believe it's been so long since I was able to write and photograph for the blog I started years ago, Discovering His Creation. Yesterday while taking my son to an appointment a Hackberry Emperor Butterfly landed on my car door and seemed quite happy to just sit there. I was told at first I would have to stay in the car while he went in. I was hot and not feeling well in the heat. I was sitting there praying and suddenly comforted to see one of my favorite things a butterfly. God sends comfort when our hearts are troubled and this He did when I needed it. .....
Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. Psalms 86:17(By the way they did later tell me I could come inside and I didn't have to stay in the car the whole appointment.)
Back to the Hackberry Emperor though who gets its name from the Hackberry tree. It lays it's eggs on and receives food from the leaves. Not a tree I'm familiar with but maybe I will will search for these where I live. As an adult they have a variety of other other food sources fruit, sap, surprisingly not flowers often. They can be found in a lot of North America. They range as far south as Central Mexico and as far north as parts of Eastern Canada. They can be found as far west as Arizona, New Mexico and the Rockies.
